by Alfred Poor | February 13, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
70 years ago, a discovery was made at Bell Labs in New Jersey that changed the course of human civilization. Three researchers — Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain — created a switch with no moving parts. By applying a current to one lead, they could control...
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by Alfred Poor | September 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you’re a technology dweeb, you might well recognize the names Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen. They are the three scientists at Bell Labs who invented the transistor in 1947. This simple device used an electrical signal to control the flow of electricity in a...
by Alfred Poor | August 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The photo above shows a small patch of thin plastic on a subject’s skin. How thin is the plastic? 0.004 mm, or about 1/25 of the width of a human hair. That’s thin. It’s not remarkable that this flexible patch of plastic is so thin; what’s...
by Alfred Poor | October 8, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
One particularly knotty problem for wearables is the question of how to make a useful display. Most companies follow the same model that has been used for wristwatches for more than 100 years; take a rigid display and attach it to a flexible band so that it can be...
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by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the problems with wearable Health Tech devices is that they tend to be small. In fact, the smaller they are, the better because they are more likely to “disappear” into the wearer’s daily life. But as we’ve discussed before, this does...
